Director's Commentary Quotes

#1. I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much, it takes a certain mystery away from the interpretation that is very important for the audience to have. The audience should have their own interpretation.

Joseph M. Kahn

#2. Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature.

Christopher Dawson

#3. (Boris Pasternak described this phenomenon beautifully, when he wrote, "No genuine book has a first page.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the air. There's of course director and cast commentary on each episode on the DVD. We had a blast recording that.

Joel McHale

#5. I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

Kevin Munroe

#6. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

George Orwell

#7. The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

John Tukey

#8. [She] was easy to enjoy but hard to know."
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"It's unbearable, the not knowing.

Emma Donoghue

#9. In business, organization is an absolute necessity, not an alternative.

Larry Burkett

#10. I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

Catherine Hardwicke